Senators Speak Out About Judicial Nominations: Judging the Environment: Judging the Environment: Federal Judicial Nominations

Senator Statements

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Senator Feinstein's 1/26/06 Floor Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - California) 01/26/06

Senator Durbin's 1/25/06 Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - Illinois) 01/25/06

Sen. Boxer Floor Statement in Opposition to Alito Nomination
(Democrat - California) 01/25/06
"Will Justice Alito vote to uphold Congress’s constitutional power to pass laws to protect Americans’ health, safety, and welfare? Judge Alito’s record says no. In the 1996 Rybar case, Judge Alito voted to strike down the Federal ban on the transfer or possession of machine guns because he believed it exceeded Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause. His Third Circuit colleagues sharply criticized his dissent and said that it ran counter to ‘‘a basic tenet of the constitutional separation of powers.’’ And Judge Alito’s extremist view has been rejected by six other circuit courts and the Supreme Court. Judge Alito stood alone and failed to protect our families. Will Justice Alito vote to let citizens stop companies from polluting their communities? Judge Alito’s record says no. In the Magnesium Elektron case, Judge Alito voted to make it harder for citizens to sue for toxic emissions that violate the Clean Water Act. Fortunately, in another case several years later, the Supreme Court rejected the Third Circuit and Alito’s narrow reading of the law. Judge Alito doesn’t seem to care about a landmark environmental law."

Senator Reed's 1/25/06 Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - Rhode Island) 01/25/06

Senator Nelson's 1/25/06 Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - Florida) 01/25/06

Senator Clinton's 1/25/06 Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - New York) 01/25/06

Sen. Kerry Floor Statement in Opposition to Alito Nomination
(Democrat - Massachusetts) 01/25/06

Senator Kohl's 1/24/06 Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - Wisconsin) 01/24/06

Senator Boxer's 1/24/06 Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - California) 01/24/06

Senator Schumer's 1/24/06 Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - New York) 01/24/06

Senator Feinstein's 1/24/06 Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - California) 01/24/06

Senator Wyden's 1/20/06 Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - Oregon) 01/20/06

Senator Salazar's 1/19/06 Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - Colorado) 01/19/06

Senator Harkin's 1/19/06 Statement on Alito Nomination
(Democrat - Iowa) 01/19/06

Senator Boxer's 1/13/06 Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - California) 01/13/06

Senator Reid's 1/12/06 Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - Nevada) 01/12/06

Senator Schumer's 1/9/06 Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - New York) 01/09/06

Senator Leahy's 12/6/05 Statement on the Alito Nomination
(Democrat - Vermont) 12/06/05

Senator Feingold's 9/29/05 Statement on the Roberts Nomination
(Democrat - Wisconsin) 09/29/05

Sen. Obama Floor Statement: NOMINATION OF JOHN ROBERTS
(Democrat - Illinois) 09/22/05
"In those 5 percent of hard cases, the constitutional text will not be directly on point. The language of the statute will not be perfectly clear. Legal process alone will not lead you to a rule of decision. In those circumstances, your decisions about whether affirmative action is an appropriate response to the history of discrimination in this country or whether a general right of privacy encompasses a more specific right of women to control their reproductive decisions or whether the commerce clause empowers Congress to speak on those issues of broad national concern that may be only tangentially related to what is easily defined as interstate commerce, whether a person who is disabled has the right to be accommodated so they can work alongside those who are nondisabled—in those difficult cases, the critical ingredient is supplied by what is in the judge’s heart."

Senator Boxer's 9/13/05 Statement on the Roberts Nomination
(Democrat - California) 09/13/05

Senator Leahy's 9/12/05 Statement on the Roberts Nomination
(Democrat - Vermont) 09/12/05

Senator Mikulski's 9/12/05 Statement on the Roberts Nomination
(Democrat - Maryland) 09/12/05

Senator Durbin's 9/12/05 Statement on the Roberts Nomination
(Democrat - Illinois) 09/12/05

Senator Murray's 9/12/05 Statement on the Roberts Nomination
(Democrat - Washington) 09/12/05

Senator Feinstein's 9/12/05 Statement on the Roberts Nomination
(Democrat - California) 09/12/05

Senator Specter's 8/8/05 Letter to Judge Roberts on Commerce Clause
(Republican - Pennsylvania) 08/08/05

Senator Schumer's 7/21/05 Statement on the Roberts Nomination
(Democrat - New York) 07/21/05

Senator Leahy's 7/20/05 Statement on the Roberts Nomination
(Democrat - Vermont) 07/20/05

Senator Feinstein's 7/19/05 Statement on the Roberts Nomination
(Democrat - California) 07/19/05